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Doctors in Mexico show benefits of healthy diet, exercise in heart failure patients

Doctors in Mexico have shown the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise in patients with heart failure, in research presented at the Mexican Congress of Cardiology 2015.

22 Nov 2015

TGen receives 2015 Regents' Award for Outstanding Service to Higher Education

The Arizona Board of Regents presented the Translational Genomics Research Institute with its 2015 Regents' Award for Outstanding Service to Higher Education, recognizing the extensive research TGen has conducted in association with Northern Arizona University.

21 Nov 2015

Study reveals key steps to improve care for pregnant mothers, prevent stillbirths

A new study launched today (Thursday 19 November) has revealed key steps for hospitals to improve care for pregnant mums and babies.

20 Nov 2015

U of A researcher's work on prostate cancer metastasis earns top award

A University of Alberta researcher's work to identify patients at greatest risk of prostate cancer cells spreading to another part of the body has earned a top award at a showcase of the world's best up-and-coming research talent.

20 Nov 2015

Weight-loss surgery improves metabolic health of mothers, but harms offspring later in life

Studies show that weight-loss surgery can boost fertility in women and reduce the risk of pregnancy complications that commonly occur in obese women, such as gestational diabetes and preeclampsia. While weight loss surgery improves the metabolic health of mothers, new findings to be presented at Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Diseases: Physiology and Gender support that such surgery has negative consequences on children born after the procedure.

20 Nov 2015

New study reveals better treatment options for proliferative diabetic retinopathy

This National Diabetes Month, there is some good news for people with eye complications from diabetes. Earlier this month, a network of researchers supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) found that the drug Lucentis (ranibizumab) can be highly effective for treating proliferative diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that can occur as a complication of diabetes.

20 Nov 2015

Type II diabetes drug can effectively clear fatty liver disease from some patients

New research published in The Lancet has shown that a drug, currently used in the treatment of Type II diabetes, can be effective in clearing fatty liver disease from some patients.

20 Nov 2015

BUSM researchers identify new fingerprint of inflammation in obesity-associated type 2 diabetes

There is strong evidence that inflammation promotes obesity-associated type 2 diabetes and diabetes complications. However, clinical trials with anti-inflammatory drugs have only been modestly effective for treating Type 2 diabetes. A new fingerprint of inflammation that may be able to predict which patients with obesity may also develop type 2 diabetes has been identified by Boston University School of Medicine researchers.

19 Nov 2015

Study provides insight into the structure of dark proteome

Proteins are often referred to as the building blocks of life, and make up about 15 per cent of the mass of the average person, performing a wide variety of essential functions in the body.

19 Nov 2015

Global tissue engineered medical devices market expected to cross US$ 26 billion by 2020

According to recently published Pharmaion report, "Global Tissue Engineered Medical Devices Market Forecast & Opportunities, 2020", global tissue engineered medical devices market is anticipated to cross US$ 26 billion by 2020.

19 Nov 2015

Lilly, Merck expand oncology clinical trial collaboration

Eli Lilly and Company and Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced the extension of an existing collaboration to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the combination of Lilly's ALIMTA (pemetrexed for injection) and Merck's KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) in a pivotal Phase III study in first-line nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

19 Nov 2015

Consuming tree nuts may reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, new study finds

A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that consuming tree nuts, such as walnuts, may lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. After conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis of 61 controlled trials, one of the authors, Michael Falk, PhD, Life Sciences Research Organization, found that consuming tree nuts lowers total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL cholesterol, and ApoB, the primary protein found in LDL cholesterol.

19 Nov 2015

Sildenafil drug improves insulin sensitivity in people at risk for diabetes

The drug sildenafil, sold as Viagra and other brand names, improves insulin sensitivity in people at risk for diabetes, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center reported today.

19 Nov 2015

New insulin pill shows promise as novel form of therapy for diabetes

An insulin pill being developed by researchers at UC Santa Barbara may in the near future give another blood sugar management option to those who suffer from diabetes. The novel drug delivery technology may also apply to a wide spectrum of other therapies.

19 Nov 2015

IQWiG finds no added benefit for insulin degludec/liraglutide in adults with type 2 diabetes

The fixed combination of the two drugs insulin degludec and liraglutide (trade name: Xultophy) has been approved since June 2015 also in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus when oral antidiabetics (OADs) combined with a GLP-1 receptor agonist do not provide adequate glycaemic control. The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) examined in a dossier assessment whether this fixed combination offers an added benefit over the appropriate comparator therapy (ACT).

19 Nov 2015

Potential treatment strategy for glycogen storage disease

Researchers from the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore and Duke Medicine have identified a potential treatment strategy for an often-fatal inherited glycogen storage disease.

18 Nov 2015

Coordinated care and telehealth deployment ‘cookbook’ debuted

Royal Philips and its ACT-program consortium partners today announced the debut of a ‘cookbook’ outlining key enablers necessary to scale connected care and telehealth programs.

18 Nov 2015

Exercise, healthy lifestyle habits may cut prostate cancer risk by up to 68%

A study that tracked tens of thousands of midlife and older men for more than 20 years has found that vigorous exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits may cut their chances of developing a lethal type of prostate cancer by up to 68 percent.

18 Nov 2015

Scientists succeed in promoting regeneration of injured neurons in zebrafish by the use of light

The nervous system is built to last a lifetime, but diverse diseases or environmental insults can overpower the capacity of neurons to maintain function or to repair after trauma. A team led by Dr. Hernán López-Schier, head of the Research Unit Sensory Biology and Organogenesis at Helmholtz Zentrum München, now succeeded in promoting the repair of an injured neural circuit in zebrafish.

18 Nov 2015

Elite endurance athletes who eat few carbohydrates burn more fat during prolonged exercise

Elite endurance athletes who eat very few carbohydrates burned more than twice as much fat as high-carb athletes during maximum exertion and prolonged exercise in a new study - the highest fat-burning rates under these conditions ever seen by researchers.

18 Nov 2015

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Latest Diabetes News and Research

Doctors in Mexico show benefits of healthy diet, exercise in heart failure patients

TGen receives 2015 Regents' Award for Outstanding Service to Higher Education

Study reveals key steps to improve care for pregnant mothers, prevent stillbirths

U of A researcher's work on prostate cancer metastasis earns top award

Weight-loss surgery improves metabolic health of mothers, but harms offspring later in life

New study reveals better treatment options for proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Type II diabetes drug can effectively clear fatty liver disease from some patients

BUSM researchers identify new fingerprint of inflammation in obesity-associated type 2 diabetes

Study provides insight into the structure of dark proteome

Global tissue engineered medical devices market expected to cross US$ 26 billion by 2020

Lilly, Merck expand oncology clinical trial collaboration

Consuming tree nuts may reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, new study finds

Sildenafil drug improves insulin sensitivity in people at risk for diabetes

New insulin pill shows promise as novel form of therapy for diabetes

IQWiG finds no added benefit for insulin degludec/liraglutide in adults with type 2 diabetes

Potential treatment strategy for glycogen storage disease

Coordinated care and telehealth deployment ‘cookbook’ debuted

Exercise, healthy lifestyle habits may cut prostate cancer risk by up to 68%

Scientists succeed in promoting regeneration of injured neurons in zebrafish by the use of light

Elite endurance athletes who eat few carbohydrates burn more fat during prolonged exercise

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